Well, with that response I can tell you're a younger gamer and that attitude of "throw away" games will continue. Sad but oh well. To each their own.
To better explain the greed part... you have to pay to play multiplayer without bots. Hence my Halo 2 example. What's the quickest way to get subs? Don't have offline multiplayer bots. That was MS's thinking and EA's now.
It's fine for what it is but really why do you have such a problem with the game not including Bots? You realize that if they included bots you would be able to continue the experience of the game's entirety offline years down the line even when servers are pulled.
Not including them is a step backwards and a show of greed from EA. Again, it's not about liking or disliking a genre, it's not about them putting in a single player mode, and it's not about...
You're missing the point...entirely.
If you're holding a copy of Halo 2 for original Xbox in your hands right now and try to play multiplayer it's useless. Even that dlc extra map pack most players bought is trash now.
Alternatively, Unreal Tournament is still playable today because they were intuitive enough to include bots. Unreal Tournament from 1999 is still a game. Halo 2 from 2004 is now a drink coaster. (Unless you enjoy the campaigne...
Nice article. This entire blog is the reason I wasn't quick to jump in this generation of gaming and some of last generation. Offline Bots have been the norm since Unreal Tournament (Dreamcast) and Golden Eye (N64). Most multiplayer games in similar genres gave you the options to play offline bots. It became accepted. That was until Halo. Halo had system link and since it was 2001 and still sort of a new thing to console gamers that didn't buy a Dreamcast it got a pass. But the...
Ps4 is like Justin bieber. Sucks but all the public buy it up anyways.
I just couldn't stand the control set up. It's overly complicated and garbage. If they could just go back and make the controls like KOTOR and KOTOR 2 I'd never put it down. As it is though, meh, what a shame.
Rare replay games work fine, which turn Xbox one into a 360. Even the guide button is there.
I'll get one eventually to hack it to play Super Nintendo and Sega games. I did it with psp but that dpad was garbage and pointless.
You could always switch views and adjust the camera up close or far away. I like 3rd person primarily. I go to first person when picking up items so I don't steal something or grab some useless bowls or junk.
I use the same tactics in Skyrim and Eldee Scrolls Online. Been doing it since Morrowind.
Snake Eyes needs a game and movie based off his Silent Interlude comic. Like Splinter cell but with Ninja/commando abilities to subdue Cobra soldiers, Crimson Guards, Red Ninjas, Fire Fly, Destro, Storm Shadow, and finally Cobra Commander. Rescuing Scarlett, and no Duke around, Snake Eyes finally gets the girl. Coolest thing is Snake Eyes doesn't even talk. Would be similar to Arkham Knight but set within a hidden Cobra base.
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Dreamcast vcd
...and Saturn supports VCDs too. I didn't know that.
Dreamcast could play movies in mpg format. It's a little work to burn a movie in "gd-rom" format but still was available. Japan actually supported it and you could get movies on CD. Larger movies were on multiple discs. Playstation was first to have a DVD drive and that's about it.
I always wanted Gears of war but skinned as g.i.joe. Just give a little more moves to the melee part of the game but it would be great. Toy soldiers has cobra and gijoe in it but tower defense games get old quick.
I loved Vegas. I played it all the way through 4 times to get the different endings. My favorite was finding Mr. House's real body. That was fantastic. Now I feel like playing again because of your blog. Guess I have to get Fallout 4. Wasn't really on my radar until you mentioned it and now I'm excited for something for the first time this generation.
The console that changed everything for me was the Dreamcast. The visual jump from PS1/n64 to Dreamcast was huge. When PS2 came out it struggled to look as good. Soul Calibur and DOA2 wiped the floor with anything on PS2.
Sega Net. I spent hours with nfl2k1 and Phantasy star online. It was amazing.
Sega stopped Dreamcast and I bought a ps2 and couldn't help but feel like it was a step backwards. I had a blast with Vice City and Mgs2 but eventual...
A big let down to me. A reason I keep my 360. My gaming time is also my music time.
...or companies killing great single player games and turning them into mmos.
Shenmue, Kotor, Elder scrolls, Phantasy Star...etc
Glad that Shenmue is getting a true follow up. I'd love one more Kotor possibly having Revan and the Outcast together in the party joining/battling the Sith in the outer rim.
Yeah, the would have to use flash drive/cartridges which are cheaper. They even have flash drives made for old cartridge based consoles that hold more 60 gigs. Remember retro games from the 16-bit era people thought 40 meg games were big. That was Street Fighter 2 CE on Genesis. Then NEO GEO had games that were near 400 megs. 60 gigs is huge and my guess would be the games would be like 2 gigs at the most and those 2 gig flash drives are cheap.
I'm just glad indie devs still keep putting out Sega Genesis games.
@Edmix
From your responses it's clear you can't understand what we're talking about. Twisting everything up to the point readers of your posts would think you work for EA. You missed the point of everything said here. Everything.
"Throw away gaming" is a term used to describe games that have little to no use without the internet. People dump money into an experience that's not meant to last forever. You can keep that physical di...